Wednesday, August 29, 2007

A Real Toe Tapper

I have been following the story of Republican Senator Larry Craig with a degree of incredulity. Hanging out in public bathrooms, tapping the feet of an undercover cop, pleading guilty in a vain attempt to keep his subsequent arrest for lewd and disorderly conduct under wraps, and then claiming it was all an innocent mistake when the story breaks? You can't beat politicians for hanging on to the cover story just long enough to make themselves seem like tortured self-loathing psychiatric cases, can you?

I offer up the following as an object lesson to any elected official looking to carry off the deep scandal photo op: